Dumb things you did in video games as a kid.

I don't think that last one is a dumb thing to do. In fact I'm pretty sure everyone who has ever played a zoo sim game has done that at some point.

Good point....

This isn't a person, but... at around 10:19, the AI in this Yu-Gi-Oh game does something so stupid that the LPer can't contain himself.

• Wasting my very first Master Ball on a Pelipper.
• Replacing my Diamond team with Dialga and the Lake Guardians.
• Intentionally jumping on the wrong ghosts because it was so funny when Rave fell.
• Doodling random lines in Kirby: Canvas Curse.
• Hitting my neighbors with an axe or a net.
  • Also, digging holes around myself.
• Accidentally grinding in the Makuhita Dojo. I meant to harvest gummis to get the nonsleeper IQ skill, but I felt the need to level up further to curb-stomp Gengar and his cronies.

edited 13th Mar '15 2:49:53 AM by TroperNo9001

Lets call this "Stupid Things Murataku and Her Brothers Did In Goldeneye"

• Shooting scientists in the arse
• Slappers Only License To Kill
• Wasting ammo drawing smiley faces on the walls with bullets or paintballs
• Playing "guess which toilet stall he's hiding in"
• Just hurling a bomb into the stall while playing the above, knowing the blast would be deadly no matter which stall he was in

edited 13th Mar '15 3:34:40 AM by Murataku

I tried to get on top of those really tall towers in Jak II

imagine my teenage mind when i learned you really could get on top of them and there are actually items up there

though i think that's only jak 3

After beating Super Princess Peach, I'd go back to the levels where there were lots of goombas coming out of the pipes. I'd round them up and corral them in a "pen" then stomp on them for fun. Also, I experimented on koopas by swapping their shells to see if they changed species.

Yes.

edited 13th Mar '15 6:56:41 PM by TroperNo9001

well

did they

I had one of the old Madden football games for the Playstation when I was a kid, and I spent most of my time on there making my players run into the goalposts and watching them fall down.

I used to be a chronic team killer. In my teenage mind, it was so funny to kill my teammates because they never saw it coming. I've since gotten better after seeing how annoying such behavior is. Though I'll still slaughter civilians and allies in single player mode if I can get away with it. The AI won't be upset.

I'd also replay levels over and over with no thought to game progression.

Okay, so because of this thread, I now have to choose between playing Sonic Adventure 2 (for the soundtrack, which is as far as I'm concerned the greatest achievement humankind has ever achieved in the music category) or Jak 3 (for the jetboard, flying bikes, Daxter, and one boss fight I vaguely remember out in the desert against some hugely giant monster). Which might be the best Sadistic Choice I've ever had to make. Of course, really, the choice is which to play first. (Sonic.)

On topic: not something I did in a game, but when I was a kid I had one of those big zip-up album-case-thing for discs that looked kinda like this◊. But unlike most of those, each flap had on the left side a plastic sleeve like the ones over the covers of videogame cases, and on the right side, a sleeve to fit a single disc. So what did I do? I took the covers out of the sleeves of the cases, cut them up, and put them in the sleeves in the album-case-thing, entirely unaware of the term "resale value". On some of them I left most of the front cover, on others I left just the title, and on others just parts of the cover art.

Of course, by now, most of the games in that case either have too much sentimental/nostalgia value to sell or don't work anymore, on account of I owned them at an age when I thought it was a good idea to cut my game covers into pieces.

When I first owned the original Kingdom Hearts, I repeatedly tried to play through the whole game without saving. I thought it would only take a few hours. I didn't quite understand how RPG's work...

Well, for some people, it does only take a few hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TT4_FR08yg

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but there was once a time when I thought Sonic the Hedgehog was a mascot for Sonic the resturaunt. Probably because he ate so many chili dogs in the cartoon.

Dude, you are soooo not alone!

I thought the restaurant was named after Sonic the game character.

I refused to use up any usable item. It didn't even need to be Too Awesome to Use, it could be something like potions. I could have 99 and I would still never use them, I would "save them".

Living Books: In the "Deep Dark Sea" bonus game included on Arthur's Computer Adventure'', I wound often intentionally run into sea life because I thought the animations/sounds that played when you did were funny. (Refer to this playthrough. You'll see what I mean sooner or later.) I paid for that dearly when my character ran out of air.

Same thing goes for the Tricycle Race on Jump Start Kindergarten 98. I tended to go through the wrong answer just because I found the wipeout animations hilarious. It went even further when I discovered a Good Bad Bug relating to the wiping out upon getting a wrong answer.^{What was it?} Crashing through an incorrect mud pit (only a mud pit, mind you) on the third lane down (specifically the third lane down from the top) while holding down the down arrow key and continuing to do so during the crash sequence, restarting the race and Mr. Hopsalot's opening spiel sometimes would cause the poor racer to suddenly crash and wipe out through a magically appearing mud pit as soon as she starts moving. The fact that Hopsalot's mouth isn't moving as he gives a "Ooops! Try again" line despite being onscreen during this makes it even better.

edited 17th Apr '15 6:26:49 PM by kablammin45

Not particularly long ago, but my cousin and I would occasionally kill each other in Halo (the first one) co-op for kicks.

I can't think of anything dumb I did as a kid really. In games, that is. Well, other than never being able to get anything other than Numemon in Digimon World, but I don't think that qualifies.

Did you rest your Digimon at Jijimon's house?

I tended to spoil my monsters in Monster Rancher because I felt bad about punishing them or working them. I very rarely made it past Rank C.

Hmmm... Let's see...

I used to have a Game Genie for my NES. I used it extensively on Super Mario Bros. 3. It was how I first beat the game. I made much use out of the "Skywalker" code and would walk on the sky to cheat-beat levels.

My sister and I would play games like Micro Machines and Rampart and Street Fighter II when I'd come to her place to stay a night to babysit my nieces the next day when they were babies. We would call each other really creative curse-names. It wasn't mean or fighting, but just friendly banter and we came up with names like "whoreknot!" and "sh*tty bi*cthball!" I seem to remember lots of sabotage of each other in some games... standard fare for siblings.

Not exactly stupid as much as "a thing that people don't have to do with modern and updated games and walkthroughs on the Internet" : When I first got The Legend of Zelda (the original game), my brother in law would play it. I had a file and he had a file that my sister and I would watch as he played because he was good at games and I was, like, 10. In order to try to figure out where hidden things were and what needed exploring, he took a huge sheet of cardboard and a ball-point pen and meticulously went frame by frame on the Overworld sketching out a massive map. I'm sad the thing eventually got thrown away. It was cool. It was a hand-done Zelda-map done in the days before walkthroughs. It was big, too... had to be stored behind a bed.

In Pokemon I used to hold the d-pad in the direction I wanted a life bar to go (left for enemy, right for mine.)

I still do that.

When i first played [[Kirby]]: Nightmare In Dreamland as a kid, i didn't know you could copy powers, so i played the ENTIRE GAME just spitting out enemies at other enemies. It was like the first Kirby game ever made (Kirby's Adventure.), actually.